This blog describes the orchestration functionality offered in the EFPF platform

API management refers to control, distribution and analysis of APIs, it ensures that the needs of the applications and users that make...

This blog describes the ecosystem creation and evolution requirements in the context of federated digital platforms

This blog describes the integrated marketplace framework functioanlity

An outlook of opportunities brought forward by the COVID-19 pandemic

This blog provides an overview of eFactory background and key offerings

EFPF is a federated smart factory ecosystem and a digital platform that interlinks different stakeholders of the digital manufacturing...

In this blog, we describe the process used to define the architecture of the EFPF platform. This process is based on IEEE 1471...

The EFPF project has passed its 1st year of 4-year life time. At the dawn of the 2nd year, in this blog we reflect on the progress and...

The Workshop on Digital Platform Ecosystems: From Interoperability to Federation (IFED 2020) will be held in conjunction with the I-ESA...

Data Spine

Industry4.0 primarily focuses on the automation, integration, and optimization of processes and manufacturing lines. This often requires...

Usman Wajid, James Tryend (ICE) Overcomplexity is a feature of many large and distributed IT systems. This is something that often...

For any digital platform the vital challenge of attracting users is just the start. Platforms need to develop and maintain user...

Usman Wajid, James Tryand (ICE) The development of a Digital platform has been a popular discussion topic in information technology in...

Manufacturing in Europe is seeing tremendous attention both in terms of R&D efforts and also in terms of increasing capacity for...

Usman Wajid (ICE), Violeta Damjanovic-Behrendt (SRFG) The EFPF project establishes a federation of four Factories of the Future (FoF)...

Karl Grün (ASI), Usman Wajid (ICE) “Smart manufacturing” is a commonly used term these days, however only recently ISO and IEC provided a...

The EFPF project is developing a connected factory platform for agile manufacturing. Agile manufacturing typically relies on the setup,...

The EFPF project started on the 01-01-2019. The project has received €13.64m funding from the European Commission to establish a...